Mickey7@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 2 days agoAnyone miss all the colors?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square160fedilinkarrow-up1821arrow-down129
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minus-squareharrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 days agoDrive the West Davis highway in Utah, north of Salt Lake City, and most of what you’ll see is cookie-cutter McMansions in the same color schemes. I saw one larger house that looked like an unpaid intern copied and pasted the same set of rooms multiple times onto the standard front entry. Cheaply built, soulless architecture, tiny lots, on ground that was lake bed less than a hundred years ago.
minus-squareaesthelete@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 day agoReminds me of one of the funniest articles I’ve read: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
minus-squareharrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoThat was a fun read. I bookmarked it.
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoIn my town there are two bright pink houses. I love 'em.
minus-squareharrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoThat’s cool. I don’t think I’ve seen one ever.
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoI hadn’t, either, before I started visiting this town.
minus-squareIronBird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agothat has always been the american way, upton sinclair was writing about this shit over close to a century ago now
Drive the West Davis highway in Utah, north of Salt Lake City, and most of what you’ll see is cookie-cutter McMansions in the same color schemes.
I saw one larger house that looked like an unpaid intern copied and pasted the same set of rooms multiple times onto the standard front entry.
Cheaply built, soulless architecture, tiny lots, on ground that was lake bed less than a hundred years ago.
Reminds me of one of the funniest articles I’ve read: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
That was a fun read. I bookmarked it.
In my town there are two bright pink houses. I love 'em.
That’s cool. I don’t think I’ve seen one ever.
I hadn’t, either, before I started visiting this town.
that has always been the american way, upton sinclair was writing about this shit over close to a century ago now